December shot

[Marko]

Anyone want to volunteer their shot for December's post processing assignment?

thx
Marko

[PaulaLynn]

Remind me what this is exactly again please?

[Marko]

We all try to 'fix' a particular member's image and we say how we do it.

thx
M

[PaulaLynn]

Feel free to use mine

[Marko]

I've tried to make some quick edits but the pic is a bit small filesize-wise so there's lots of artifacts.
Any chance you can upload something closer to 140k? I'd be happy to help if you need it.

thx
Marko

[slightlyimperfect]

Well if no one else has any to fix, heaven knows I have a whole computer full of them
Well the obvious is that this picture needs some work...if you would like, process away

Robin

[Marko]

This is already a very good shot!
BUT THERE ARE TONS AND TONS of possibilities here.

her's just 1 possibility - took me about 5 min. I cropped - played with levels - dodged and burned a touch - sharpened a touch.

[mindforge]

For this one, I created an HDR image and tone-mapped the image. I was trying to cool it off and give it the feeling of an impending storm. I liked the previous crop so I went with that. I just created the HDR using three images that were altered by 2 steps in brightness only.

[slightlyimperfect]

Wow both of those are really good!

I like how the second one makes it look like its about to storm, the black border really makes it pop.

The first edited one I like, because it was most true to life and the colors are right on.

Thanks
Robin

[mindforge]

Ok. Lots of color changes, sharpening and hand smoothing. Purposely looks waxy and digital. I wanted to remove the hair texture at the top of the forehead but it looked really weird like that.